Back when you could smoke in Congress
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Looks like him. He was great in the Hunt for Red October."Russians don't take a dump, son, without a plan." Good movie.
I remember when you could smoke in a grocery store while shopping; and nobody batted an eye!
Back then, mid-60's, the drug store had racks of pipe tobacco -- maybe 30 pouch-type blends, and cigarettes were under 25¢ a pack:
Lucky Strike, Old Gold, Chesterfield, remember those?
Back then, mid-60's, the drug store had racks of pipe tobacco -- maybe 30 pouch-type blends, and cigarettes were under 25¢ a pack:
Lucky Strike, Old Gold, Chesterfield, remember those?
Yep thats him in the Watergate Hearings...Not only did he play a prosecuter on Law and Order
he was a special prosecuter during the Watergate hearings...Now who is the guy next to him
with a pipe?
he was a special prosecuter during the Watergate hearings...Now who is the guy next to him
with a pipe?
Filmography
Year Film Role Notes
1985 Marie Himself Fred Thompson's first film
1987 No Way Out CIA Director Marshall
1988 Unholy Matrimony Frank Sweeny TV film
Feds Bill Bilecki
1989 Fat Man and Little Boy Maj. Gen. Melrose Hayden Barry Movie about the Manhattan Project. Thompson's character may loosely be based on General Brehon B. Somervell, who oversaw the construction of the Pentagon.
1990 The Hunt for Red October Rear Admiral Joshua Painter
Days of Thunder Big John
Die Hard 2 Trudeau
1991 Flight of the Intruder Court-Martial Captain
Necessary Roughness Carver Purcell
Class Action Dr. Getchell
Curly Sue Bernie Oxbar
Cape Fear Tom Broadbent
1992 Aces: Iron Eagle III Stockman
Bed of Lies Richard 'Racehorse' Haynes TV Film
Thunderheart William Dawes Loosely based on the Wounded Knee Incident
White Sands Arms dealer
Stay the Night Det. Malone TV Film
Day-O Frank DeGeorgio TV Film
Keep the Change Otis TV Film
1993 Barbarians at the Gate James D. Robinson III TV Film about the 1988 leveraged buyout of RJR Nabisco.
Born Yesterday Sen. Hedges Remake of the 1950 film based on Born Yesterday, a play by Garson Kanin.
In the Line of Fire White House Chief of Staff Harry Sargent
1994 Baby's Day Out FBI Agent Dale Grissom
2001 Rachel and Andrew Jackson: A Love Story Andrew Jackson Voice
2004 Evel Knievel Jay Sarno TV Film
2005 Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World Himself Although Thompson plays himself, it is a slightly fictionalized version.
2007 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee President Ulysses S. Grant Based on the book of the same name, which is about the Native American experience in the American West during the late 19th century.
2010 Ironmen Governor Neeley
Secretariat Bull Hancock Film is about the United States' Hall of Fame racehorse Secretariat.
The Genesis Code Judge Hardin Film is based on debates about the relationship between religion and science.
Alleged William Jennings Bryan Film is about the 1925 Scopes Trial.
[edit] Television series
Year Series Role Episode count
1988 Wiseguy Knox Pooley 3 Episodes
1989 China Beach Lt. Col. Reinhardt 1 Episode
Roseanne Keith Faber 1 Episode
Matlock Gordon Lewis 2 Episodes
1993 Matlock Prosecutor McGonigal 1 Episode
2000 Sex and the City Politician on TV 1 Episode
2002–2007 Law & Order D.A. Arthur Branch 116 Episodes
Year Film Role Notes
1985 Marie Himself Fred Thompson's first film
1987 No Way Out CIA Director Marshall
1988 Unholy Matrimony Frank Sweeny TV film
Feds Bill Bilecki
1989 Fat Man and Little Boy Maj. Gen. Melrose Hayden Barry Movie about the Manhattan Project. Thompson's character may loosely be based on General Brehon B. Somervell, who oversaw the construction of the Pentagon.
1990 The Hunt for Red October Rear Admiral Joshua Painter
Days of Thunder Big John
Die Hard 2 Trudeau
1991 Flight of the Intruder Court-Martial Captain
Necessary Roughness Carver Purcell
Class Action Dr. Getchell
Curly Sue Bernie Oxbar
Cape Fear Tom Broadbent
1992 Aces: Iron Eagle III Stockman
Bed of Lies Richard 'Racehorse' Haynes TV Film
Thunderheart William Dawes Loosely based on the Wounded Knee Incident
White Sands Arms dealer
Stay the Night Det. Malone TV Film
Day-O Frank DeGeorgio TV Film
Keep the Change Otis TV Film
1993 Barbarians at the Gate James D. Robinson III TV Film about the 1988 leveraged buyout of RJR Nabisco.
Born Yesterday Sen. Hedges Remake of the 1950 film based on Born Yesterday, a play by Garson Kanin.
In the Line of Fire White House Chief of Staff Harry Sargent
1994 Baby's Day Out FBI Agent Dale Grissom
2001 Rachel and Andrew Jackson: A Love Story Andrew Jackson Voice
2004 Evel Knievel Jay Sarno TV Film
2005 Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World Himself Although Thompson plays himself, it is a slightly fictionalized version.
2007 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee President Ulysses S. Grant Based on the book of the same name, which is about the Native American experience in the American West during the late 19th century.
2010 Ironmen Governor Neeley
Secretariat Bull Hancock Film is about the United States' Hall of Fame racehorse Secretariat.
The Genesis Code Judge Hardin Film is based on debates about the relationship between religion and science.
Alleged William Jennings Bryan Film is about the 1925 Scopes Trial.
[edit] Television series
Year Series Role Episode count
1988 Wiseguy Knox Pooley 3 Episodes
1989 China Beach Lt. Col. Reinhardt 1 Episode
Roseanne Keith Faber 1 Episode
Matlock Gordon Lewis 2 Episodes
1993 Matlock Prosecutor McGonigal 1 Episode
2000 Sex and the City Politician on TV 1 Episode
2002–2007 Law & Order D.A. Arthur Branch 116 Episodes
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